topic Re: OVC Shutdown through REST API in HPE SimpliVity

OVC Shutdown through REST API

bbelew — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:55:06 GMT

To get it out of the way my scripting skills are not the best.

With that taken care of I was wondering if anyone has worked with the Simplivity REST API to shutdown the OVC's in a cluster. We are trying to script shutting down all resources in a certain cluster for emergency events such as a building power outage. I'm able to successfully shutdown the 1st OVC but I am unable to shutdown the 2nd OVC in our cluster because of the need to do a force shutdown for HA sync. Below is a snippet of the code where I'm telling it to not wait for HA.

$body1 = @{'ha_wait' = 'false'}
$body1 = $body1 | ConvertTo-Json

$url = $BASE_URL+'hosts/' + $uid + '/shutdown_virtual_controller'
Invoke-RestMethod -ContentType 'application/vnd.simplivity.v1+json' -Uri $url -Header $header -Body $body1 -Method Post

The result I get with this is shutdown_status @{status=FAILURE}

If I set 'ha_wait' = 'true' then the 2nd OVC will start to shutdown but it never gets past the Wait for HA storage Compliance.

Re: OVC Shutdown through REST API

LiamP — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 07:19:41 GMT

The normal procedure without using the RestAPI, is to use the force flag after the first OVC has powered off, so the same should apply when scripting.

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-sv11955en_us&docLocale=en_US

What version of HPe SimpliVity software are you running?

Re: OVC Shutdown through REST API

LiamP — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 07:56:37 GMT

Can you also try using the interactive Rest API to narrow the focus to the probable cause?

Re: OVC Shutdown through REST API

bbelew — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:26:10 GMT

We are on version 3.7.8.

Yeah if I do a force shutdown through the GUI or command line using svt-shutdown-force it shuts down fine.

I also did try through the interactive Rest API and set ha_wait: false but I get the same error of shutdown_status = FAILURE.